No matter what we are going through now, I truly believe I am so lucky to have lived in this timeline! We are pretty spoiled and have not had to endure such hardships as it was back then or even just 100 years ago. No fear! Only gratitude!
You have a goblet in your hand so it can't be all that bad. You can go to the store and buy apples and grapes... U Can watch old British movies on UA-cam for free with no commercials... You must work in the media.lol
My Grandmother was born in Western N.S.W. Australia in 1880 and died in 1970.She clearly recalled the ash cloud which caused the vibrant red sunsets for years after.She told me that in later years her mother told her she heard a rumble at the time but it took a long time for details to arrive in the news paper, being so far from the cities.It was then that she knew what she had heard.
Thank you for retelling Grandma's eyewitness account as well as what Greatgrandma told her daughter. I t is important that our elders speak of these things and refreshing when children listen.
@Islayman Need to explain better, I was in Az. summer 91 and then S. Korea by June or July. I was in Texas summer 92. Also, sorry about your struggles too, those periods. Funny how it's so long ago and doesn't hurt anymore, of things you lost then.. I lost highschool sweetheart by summer 92 and my world ended. lol She's married kids and we chat online every once in awhile. It took many years to get over her and today, I can just look at her like a friend I need nothing further than that. It took a ton of dating and many years to lose that younger pain. I can also say in Texas, it rained alot too that summer, every weekend was a damper on things.
@Islayman Oh man what a story of struggle but in the end you create and gained new better life! I fell in love summer 2004 and it was great but mostly bad roller coaster that finally eneded 2019. Today, I've accepted my losses and being single I stay busy productive mentally and physically to keep from defeat into depression. I appreciate your story man and will remember it as I go. Now about these volcanoes its dam interesting and obvious stuff I never knew. Summers are always too damn hot and now when had that recent underwater volcano tsunami coast of Tonga concerns me. I also seen claims it was underwater nuke test N. Korea being prime suspect if true???? Other than that summers will be 200° and spent indoors and underground 😆
@slay2525It was Mt Pinatubo. We were stationed in Europe at the time, and my dad was part of the evacuation of Clark AFB. I think he slept for 3 days straight when he came back.
It hasn’t been all that bad (knock on wood). Disruptive innovations are allowing people to work from home. I no longer HAVE to go get my groceries at a brick-mortar store. Instacart says that I have saved 80 hours from not having to shop at grocery stores so far this year. I’ve spent those 2 weeks in savings on Youtubing though. LOL
Jacked Avocado I like your Name , research where That Original language is Avocado , Nahuatl language give Avocado their name , it Nahuatl it means Testicles .
Thanks, so glad I came across this fascinating documentary. Many questions of our historic evolution are enlightened by the answers provided by events spawned of the occurrence of this natural disaster.
This was during the reign of Justinian, the last Eastern Roman Empire emperor who actually spoke Latin. His story is pretty awesome, especially that of his wife, Empress Theodora.
I am from India, and I was wondering what was going around at this time in the Indian subcontinent (considering all the political upheaval mentioned in the video going on so close to India). I found something very interesting, exactly around this period, the Golden age of India that of the Gupta dynasty came to an end. One archeologist, Mr Shanker Sharma said in 2019 that the end came due to a great flood around 550 AD that devastated the land ruled by the dynasty. I wonder!!!!! :O
These events happened in the deep times of kali yug, that lasts according to Sri Yukteswar Giri, for 1200 years and ended 1699! Follow the historical development and bang! All of a sudden electric energy, steam engines and therewith the industrial revolution rang in. I believe very much in cosmic cycles steering such events!
@@muricamarine9473 Do it, more and more of personal experience and knowledge gets lost or is very much distorted for click-bait! There is an unbelievable hap of nonesense and BS on the web, but also in print....!
@@TheSamuiman Sri Yukteswar Giri was a Guru and Astrologist. His 'Yuga theory' and 'Holy Science' are made up nonsense and have nothing to do with real history.
Dr. Storey (the archaeologist who discussed the bones found in Mexico) was my osteology instructor at the University of Houston. What a surprise to see her!
If your watching this it means your family was a bunch of badasses because they withstood the odds of time, congrates to you and me for coming from an awesome group of humans.
Another excellent program! I appreciate greatly the consideration and inclusion of South American and Central American civilizations. There are many documentaries which claim a global focus when what they focus on is really European and North American history. Well done 👍🏽
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams...................................
"Oh, my sweet summer child. What do you know of bad years? Bad years are for volcanic eruptions that block out the sun for months." UA-cam algorithm putting this documentary in my recommended videos feed
you re on the right track we have not had the poles flip, or a collapse of the ice shelf or an asteroid collision or an atmospheric burnoff - yet, but do not give up hope , there is still time for some natural force to beat Trump and it may be out of sync but it will not be artificial if one of those winters come@Hunter D
The fires we had in Sept. here in the Northwest had caused so much smoke that you couldn't see the sun during the days. It was still very warm, but it was forecasted for the weather to be in the high 90 degree temp. range over a 5 day period. Instead, due to the thick smoke, it only got up to the high 70's to very low 80's. It was a small local experience of what a catastrophic event, such as a massive volcanic eruption could cause to the world.
Still a Work In Progress I’m here in eastern Washington and what you say is true. So Smokey and low 70s when it was supposed to be in the 90s. I wish I could upload pics in comments here. It was crazy
The eastern Roman Empire depended on wheat imports from Egypt. The crop failures due to the volcanic eruption made this trade even more essential. Ivory trade probably not a major factor, although as seen with the Black Plague much later, all it takes is 1 ship to spread the disease across continents.
I want to thank all those who have worked on this video in any way. I especially give a huge thank you to all of the researchers. This video was extremely well done. This is as expert and professional as dealing with all the information can possibly get.
I was born in one of regency in Indonesia, its name Pandeglang. But I grew up, study and now work in another city. But I always visit my hometown at least once a year. My village is surrounded by three mountains; Pulosari, Karang, and Aseupan. One of it 'stands' like a wall, separated my area with the strait/sea where the Krakatoa is located. When I went to my hometown I liked to visit stream or small river, and I always amazed by big rock that seems like scattered fell from the sky, that's my thought when I was kid. Now I'm 30. Later I thought, was that rock or stone came from mount eruption, but which mounts? Since my hometown is surrounded by three mountains, I mentioned above. And after I searched I don't find any record about erruption from three mountains I mentioned above. I never had a thought it came from Krakatoa until I watched this. I checked Google earth and took the straight line from my village to Krakatoa caldera right now, it's around 70 km away only. Anything is possible. One of my favourites rock is the rock which as big as dining table, almost 2 meter in diameter and height. I hope someday the scientist comes to my hometown to explore more about Krakatoa impacts. ~u
i would rather be scared about Merapi than anything else that isnt a supervolcano like campi flegrei or yellowstone. it's said it has the potential to be a worse version of the Tambora eruption. Krakatoa literally drowned itself again and wont be much of a threat like in the 1880's. i actually doubt it will ever grow as big again as in that period while humans are alive.
So, do you want them to think about the past, or beyond the next four years? These people don't give a damn about the truth of what happened in the past. They are being paid by people with a 2020 agenda. They give these scientists grants to go out and prove what they want to be proven. They back up their future plans with a phoney past.
Catastrophe is a book by David Keys. In depth explanation of how the world of 536 was affected in climatically, politically, and religiously. How nations rose and fell through the starvation and death caused by the plague. Impressively like the world situation is now. An excellent study.
i live in indonesia. my city is only 350km/180 miles from krakatoa. in 2018 krakatoa had a minor eruption and created a tsunami that killed 100 people. that volcano is not dormant and pretty active. we better brace ourself guys.
of course most of the human history is a classified information that only the secret societies know the available details of it and unfortunately they're the ones producing these "documentaries" and the text books to cement the mis-information
I can't tell you how much I love the look on the guy's face at the opening of this documentary such seriousness the look of impending doom great face great documentary
@Hotepmuhdykkk Knjgjurz the Western powers are responsible for the refuge problem their support for terrorism basically fighting the so called chosen ones war's
There was also a terrible volcanic eruption in 1816 that resulted in the year without a summer, as it was known. It caused massive crop failure because there was often frost and snow through the growing season.
Thank you David Keys for the vision and dedication to the rest of our science community and those that fund their research to bring this history to us.
The eruption was actually at 540 AD. There were two massive sulfur spikes in the Arctic the one from 535 was massive but the one from 540 A.D. was even more massive. Also climatological evidence showed that the volcanic vent from five 3580 mostly affected northern latitudes while equatorial regions were largely not affected while the 540 sulfur spike was also found in the southern hemisphere at the south pole. The 535 eruption was likely a northern latitude volcano with a VEI of a six or seven, and very likely the volcano was in Alaska and the reason we cannot find it at the moment is that it is entirely submerged just like Kuwae, The more powerful irruption actually happened in 540 AD so only five years later. And because it was not one but two massive super volcanic eruption‘s that is why everything after 535AD was so extreme because before the northern hemisphere especially Europe could recover from the 535 volcanic eruption, Krakatoa erupted with a volume several larger than the 1815 eruption of Tambora and that eruption formed a 30 km wide caldera. Tambora had an eruption a volume of 150 km³ while the 540 A.D. eruption was closer to 300 km³.
Interesting analysis. It makes sense that two catastrophic eruptions could cripple the ancient world. What makes you point to Alaska as the likely source of the first eruption?
Let's be honest, this year so far hasn't been as bad as 536. We had people complaining about their mental health because they had to stay at home. That's an utter luxury when compared to failing harvests and the real plague. Come on.
Maybe the people pushing solar as the solution to all our power needs and pollution problems should watch this, then maybe more research will be done into other renewable energy sources. Also I don't think my back gardens big enough to grow a years worth of food as it is, let alone if its producing a reduced yield.
Yes. On a personal note, my Great Great Great Grandfather was killed in 1817 when a freak storm came up and blew a tree onto him. What I found interesting was seeing a show on this eruption and that 1817 also was a terrible year with weird weather including freak storms with high winds in that part of the world that summer that he died. So I think my ancestor died due to that eruption affecting the weather.
It also led to the initial designs for the bicycle, since horses were dying for want of oats, and to the horror genre, when Mary Shelly and her friends were holed up in their villa on Lake Como and held a story-writing contest to pass the miserable rainy days.
I Europe the year without a summer was made worse by the hundreds of thousands of men displaced by the war returning home to little food because too many had been away not farming. of men
That's because these people live on their social media...they don't have a life of their own! They need to wake up! All I mean is that they don't know anything about history even up into the 1940s when most people lived in rural areas - sure metropolises were packed but most of the countries' population didn't live there.
@ I know, had the same impression- but the book was released in 2000 and this 3bm television documentary was also broadcast in the same year. As for when they actually started filming- no idea.
What an incredible study. I've learnt more things I didn't know from this one episode than I have from several interesting things I've watched and read this year.
I never understood the general hate towards 2019. What even happened that was so bad? It was personally a bad year for me because my father passed away, but I didn't get the mass "2019 sucks!" appeal 🤷🏿
@@ronniemonnie I wasn't even aware that there was a strong hate towards 2019, I know that before 2020 people said that 2016 was the worst year because of how many celebrates died and cause of Harambe
No Krakatoa seriously laughed in 1883. You should read about it it's fascinating or watch a documentary about it's history. It nearly blew itself out of existence, two thirds of it was blown up and the sound of the explosion was heard around the world, it still remains the loudest sound ever recorded, not to mention the aftermath of the fallout from the emmisions being ejected anywhere from 30-50 miles into the air depending on which account you read or hear, the damage to the climate, to crops, to the weather, weird sunsets and colours in the sky. Absolutely terrible.
I agree with you, Jon. But if you want to see a simulation of a volcano erupting that’s scary enough to leave you shaken, let me urge that you watch this. And if you can play UA-cam on a large screen TV please do so, with the volume turned up a bit. I’ve watched this several times over the years, and it always blows me away. Everyone I’ve shown it to so far has found it frightening and moving, and perhaps you’ll agree. ua-cam.com/video/dY_3ggKg0Bc/v-deo.html
Most of the islands in the area of the eruption were left barren for a few decades... or at least in low population compared to what it was before the eruption. At least ... 2 million people in the 100 mile radius of the eruption... died... either of the blast... or starvation after the eruption.
I live in Ecuador where we have 19 of the Worlds largest and mostly active volcanoes in the World..We just had a massive Eruption of The Sangay Volcano in Sept 2020 that covered Guayaquil in Ash and darkened the Sun ..
@@maryroybal678 the Sangay exploded a few weeks ago..Guayaquil was covered in Ash ..Also Cantons Bolivar and Guyas..Major damage to Farmers ..I was on my way back from the Beach thru Guaquil and saw it myself ..
As a Hungarian I'm really intriegued by the information that the gold of the Avars is still believed to be buried somewhere around here. Time to dig :D
By contrast, 2020 was nothing but a wake up call to show humanity just how fragile everything is, and just how completely dependent upon international commerce we all are. So 2020 could have been SO MUCH WORSE!
It is only 1:40, I am watching, eagerly anticipating this info - then I spot this man's library through the windows - oh how I adore people's libraries. I wonderful personal libraries like these are sublime happiness to me. I chose the place I call home because of a single wall of built-in bookshelves, and expanded it as soon as I had time. Wine is divine & candy is dandy, but my silverfish all have names.
Like when you go to someone’s home or office for the first time and you can’t pay attention to what they are saying because you’re too busy reading the titles of books on the shelves...
@@Ignirium The fact that you are still curious is the main thing! I am “spoiled“ by learning thru listening, to audiobooks, podcasts, etc. especially when my eyes are tired!
@@MrJurgita no, Eastern Roman Empire, aka The Roman Empire. Who even cares about the Holy Roman Empire? Frankish-Germanic wannabes. And Holy Roman Empire didn't collapse due to the events of 536 but it is clear that the Roman Empire entered decline because of the failed reconquest of the Western Roman Empire, the Justinian Plague, the Avars and later the Turks, all of which were heavily influenced by the 536 dark year. The 1453 fall of Constantinople wouldn't have happened if not for the dark year of 536.
@@DeclinedMercy Maybe. But you can site the Crusaders sack of Constantinople in 1204 as the more immediate cause of the cities fall. This severely weakened the city and it took them over a 100 years to recover.
@@paulstone3590 the Turks were subjects of the Avars. They defeated the Avars due to the effects of the dark year and subsequently drove them to migrate to Europe. The Avars then became a major security threat to the Roman Empire, while the Turks became significantly more powerful. The Turks then went into Persia and then Anatolia, where they would come into conflict with the Roman Empire, which was the reason the Roman Empire called upon the Pope to launch a crusade. And let's not forget again, the Justinian plague which wiped out half of the Empire's population and inflicted serious and lasting damage on the Roman economy (leaving them less capable in terms of defense both short term and long term relative to unaffected groups of people). Without the dark year, many of the factors that caused the downfall of the Roman Empire including the arrival of the Turks and the Fourth Crusade would not have happened, and the Roman state would in all likelihood still exist in some form.
@@DeclinedMercyNobody knows what what would have happened if the Volcano did not erupt. All is known that it did. And any assanation of a leader that was committed or avoided could change the course of history. The Turks finally defeating Byzantium took hundreds of years. There was plenty of mismangent of government that took place then and before that weakened Constantinople and allowed them to be defeated. One example, the constant fighting with Persia. Their 300 years of fighting weakened both parties and let Muslims sweep in and conquer both. The Persians first and later the Eastern Romans.
@Brisdad53 there’s no such thing as an eastern Roman emperor/empire. It was always one empire, just administered by two emperors (and one time for a short while by 4 emperors). You might want to reconsider what you say before trying to correct someone with wrong info. 👍🏻
In several history books, the years closely following 534 AD almost disappear; there are a few words about Roman Europe and its transition from a Republic to a Church of Iron. Literally a Dark Age in Europe, and a great breakdown even in the well-forested India and Southern Aisia.
The term "Dark Ages" refers to the lack of recorded history for that period. Records were produced by a few educated elite, and when the Roman administration left there were very few to carry on the task. As far as a change in regime is concerned, we can see the same sort of chaos now, when a powerful government retreats, leaving the locals to collapse into warring tribes.
@@MD-tv5fp The skies literally went dark -- Byzantine historian Procopius. “For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year.”
We haven't come anywhere near to societal collapse. Just cuz you can't visit your Grandma this Christmas and can talk to her on Zoom does not societal collapse make. Just cuz you can't go to the bar and be in a crowd doesn't mean the world is coming to an end. We survived 536 and we'll survive this too. Talk to a survivor of WW2. Welcome to a true Apocalyptic Event. Keep up the fight. We got this.
@@diegoflores9237 aren't you forgetting those Karen's who attack people for not wearing masks and shields. Karen as a group do not stand on one side or another. No side defines them. They are simply crazy people who self appoint themselves as authoritarians and entitled people.
It's interesting to note that Eruption of El Salvador's lake Ilopango helps explain A.D. 536 cooling as well. Fascinating that two massive eruptions occurred at the same time.
I wonder when underground water pools dry out and would start a chain of reactions that triggers more and more problems. The consequences reach the level that tectonic plates become unstable. A kind of butterfly effect. Big problems start from smaller problems... in time they reach a point where catastrophic events can not be avoided.
Ilopango was a century earlier, and its ash is very different from that of Krakatau. Volcanic ash is very specific, used to determine both the volcano it came from and which spectific eruption.
@@pablorai769 This documentary is associating the 426ad event/plague and making it out to being something that happened in 526ad...They stole history channels documentaries way of portraying the explosion of ilopango either way...
I needed to know if the video would talk about toilet paper shortages and patriotic temper tantrums about facemasks. Listening about Krakatoa is oddly assuring.
Starvation will change anyone. Now here is a thought...imagine if we had a major catastrophe today as a Volcano erupting and there is no sun for a year, no food. How do you think people would react. Frightening isn't it.
First, anything that stops the oil from flowing will end most modern conveniences, including electricity. Second, throughout human history, no civilization has ever been more than nine consecutive missed meals away from collapsing. I would argue that American urban populations would have the hardest time. The whole notion of self reliance is lost on them.
Pretty much any year of the Bronze Age Collapse, Dark Ages, plague years, Mongol Invasions, Assorted religious wars (invariably bloodier than the other kind until c1800), Certainly the Wave of disease that wiped out many tens of millions in the 16th C might have attracted a fair few votes, (far less at the end, though) I feel confident that 1916 & 17 and 1941would have got a few votes at the time But hey 2020, economies have been damaged and people have to wear masks now and then!
2020 sucks, but MILLIONS haven't died from Covid-19, only thousands. So I'm pretty damn sure that as bad as THIS year has been, it is NOT worse than 536. It's certainly better than 1939-1945 was for many living in Europe or the Far East.
when I was 5 years old I asked my dad: ''How did people see in the dark ages, did they bump into things a lot?"......DAD:" No son, its called the dark ages because we don't know much about them". 'It turns out it was very dark for years'
Literacy rates across Europe dropped dramatically and there was very little written down in general *compared to periods before and after.* It's the comparison that's important. It's not that we don't know anything about that time period, it's just that we know less _from the written records_ than we know about centuries before and after it (we know plenty from archaeology). And it was basically a problem in Europe only. They were impacted the most literacy-wise by the collapse of the Roman Empire and were basically the backwater of the known world for almost a thousand years. It was only after the Enlightenment Era that Europe managed to recover. But during the Dark Ages, Europe spent most of that time period at war with its neighbors. So the only real advancements were in warfare. And that's also a large part of the reason that when they came out of their isolation, European nations promptly began waging war on everyone they came across and trying to conquer them. It was basically the European tradition which became an imperial and colonial tradition.
@@Robert_Robertson See, things are looking better already,the old VP can't even remember the name of his current POTUS. If he hid the money then Hunter's in for a long hunt,daddy forgot where it is..🤣🤣🤣🤣
Actually, yellow stone broke it's self. It has constant releases that broke thru the surface. It can't build up and then explode because it constantly has little releases. Of course, there are hundreds of others that could pop off
Learn about all of this in high school in the late eighties. Good video, but this isn’t recently discovered, because our textbooks talked about it all. That tells you that historians have known about for at least forty years.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but if putting up a new calendar made anything better, 2019, 2018, and 2017 would all have solved the misery built up from their predecessors, but that didn't work...and I buy beautiful calendars.
The Avar People! I've finally discovered my roots! Their lifestyle was identical to my hillbilly ancestors. My grandmother ran away from home at age 14 and rode her mule all the way from Arkansas to Oregon. That was real horsemanship or whatever you might call it. The ancient Avars would have been proud of her. At the beginning of winter, she'd sew her children into long johns that wouldn't be changed until Spring-----no bathing, either, of course.
The replies to this comment are just sad. I thoroughly enjoyed imagining your grandma on the adventure of a lifetime. Not to mention how industrious and strong people like her had to be. Nowadays the kids are sitting on their IPhones making stupid juvenile comments and expecting everything to be handed to them on a platter.
What isn't mentioned here is that the greatest Christian temple of the age, Hagia Sophia was built during this time, in Constantinople, from 532-537. It seems they knew they'd need a fortress to faith.
@Michelle While I wouldn't agree with what vidya said your whole comment is just a giant strawman, it was never claimed there pagans were any better, you can't use that as a counter argument. And the argument of punishing people is ridiculous, the catholic church as a singular entity has punished people for a vast variety of reasons from sane and just to completely and utterly insane, there are plenty of christians who would like people punished simply for offending their religion, which is childish. The reason behind 17th century witch hunts wasn't vandalism either, it was the same old story of the sacraficial lamb, throw others into the fire to save your own skin, or so you think. The catholic church undoubtedly was corrupted, why do you think Europe experienced 200 years of religious strife? It was because that church was rotten at it's core, and come the end of the 1600's half of Europe had refused to be part of that church which often stood in contradiction to the very core tenents of their own religion. To deny that corruption is simply just silly, and while christianity as a whole can't be blamed for many of these things, neither can you point at the pagans and say ''see they do it too'' and expect this to make the wrong things committed in the name of Christianity suddenly justified.
Well done documentary. Though the music was a trifle overbearing at times, the recreations were delightful without distracting from the professionals. Thanks for sharing.
In Europe between 400 and 700, there was a vast decline in the size of cities and the number of villages. Many landed estates all over Europe were abandoned. The Roman road network fell into disuse. The population of Rome declined to less than 10,000 people. A decline in trade resulted in every European district growing its own food. Given that on average, crops failed around every 20 years, life became insecure for all but an aristocratic or clerical elite. Metal of any kind became scarce. Technologies the ancient world took for granted disappeared from the archaeological record. With the death of Boethius in 524, classical civilisation came to an end. Thus Europe's decline into what used to be called the Dark Ages, and is now called the early Middle Ages. This massive decline was attributed to the weakening of the Eastern Empire, to the collapse of the Western Empire, and to a number of barbarian invasions. This 2 part documentary argues that a multi-year climate catastrophe triggered this decline. My only disagreement is the failure to mention the massive eruption (VEI = 6) of Ilopango, some time between 410 and 535 CE, in what is now El Salvador. It is conceivable that both Ilopango and Krakatoa erupted within a few years of each other. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ilopango
Also 2020: Hold on, I still got a bit more time left. I'm going to do some leveling up and some last minute planning for my final few weeks. Oh, I totally forgot about that upcoming presidential election! I'll be right back. LMAO.
@Coronation Street Storyline Except the Spanish flu killed between 17 to 100 million people (at a time when the World population wasn't even 2 billion yet). COVID has killed about 600,000 in a population of 8 billion.
@The Coastal Run Productions I'd say it's mainly due to the reaction people have had to it. I live with high-risk people, so that's the reason why I'm so cautious, but the average person is ultimately safe. But most people don't, so the extreme reaction of many nations and many people within nations, especially well developed nations, is hysterical and causes harm in itself, and perpetuates an image in people's minds that things are worse than they are. At least that's my take on this.
What's really scary is that this has been botched so badly in the United States that at least in in this country, COVID-19 has a chance to surpass the number of deaths by the 1918 pandemic.
Does anyone ever just think: “why was I born in this particular time in history? Why wasn’t I born in 536 AD or some time BC?” Makes you get a weird feeling inside, ya know?
Some might argue you *were* alive in 536 AD as well... Many people believe in reincarnation. Granted, it wouldn't have been "you" in a specific, literal sense... But your supposed "soul."
@Smunstu Stinkymonster obviously. But the fact you could’ve easily been born in any time period is what is crazy. But yes, we were all born at this time because our parents lived in it. Or how about this: why is it that the sperm that contained my DNA (basically, half of the essence of our being, the other half in your mother’s egg) was the first to successfully meet with your mother’s egg? It could’ve easily been any other sperm cell and therefore, you may not have been born in this time period (and yes, I know it was because the sperm cell beat the others to the egg, it’s just weird thoughts I’m sure many others have lol) Edit: I believe i should have said you may not even be alive, like.. ever. If your father’s sperm with your very essence didn’t win the race
@@michaelwilliamson4759 Perhaps something determines when you're supposed to be alive? I know not everyone believes this, but I believe that almost everything happens for a reason. Like, maybe your question can be answered more simply than you think. It is crazy that you could have been born much sooner or later, but why weren't you? Why weren't you someone else? Maybe you were meant to be who you are to play a role in the world.
Several times watching this I said to myself, wow! Considering the fragility of human societies, and the unforeseen changes that can destroy the lives of individuals, cities, and whole civilizations. Other sources speak about several other apocalyptic events in human history, e.g. the Clovis comet at the end of the last Ice Age, and other events. And now we have the event we're now experiencing, also with an initial impact and then a longer, more drawn-out series of consequences...
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Well 2020 in my 50 years is worst year in my Life! Crazy Weather and crazy people going crazy and others trying to annoying as possible!
The ash from volcanos is full of minute particles of glass. Do not breathe it.
@@terryrodbourn2793 9a!!!!±
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No matter what we are going through now, I truly believe I am so lucky to have lived in this timeline! We are pretty spoiled and have not had to endure such hardships as it was back then or even just 100 years ago.
No fear! Only gratitude!
So true. Only the current blacks have any comparison of suffering to those in 500 AD.
I can still eat.
Caroline Barna, I like the way you see things.
we're on the _very same_ timeline of those people unless you think this is a documentary on parallel universes
@@schizy you've never visited a 3rd world country, have you?
2020: "This is the worst year ever!"
536AD: "Hold my goblet!"
ROFL. Yes, we tend to forget what our ancestors went through.
@Connor Hall .....yep, me too.....I spluttered me tea down me top!
You have a goblet in your hand so it can't be all that bad.
You can go to the store and buy apples and grapes...
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Can watch old British movies on UA-cam for free with no commercials...
You must work in the media.lol
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My opinion: Man's ability to recreate historical events like this is just incredible! Thanks to those who brought about this documentary!
agreed!
How does man cause a volcanic eruption
[Q] What is the worst place, in a hospital, to Play Hide & Go seek?
[A] Intensive care unit (ICU)
@@majcorbin I needed this today
Cmon man theres no way they could know what happened then,,these are all assumptions
My Grandmother was born in Western N.S.W. Australia in 1880 and died in 1970.She clearly recalled the ash cloud which caused the vibrant red sunsets for years after.She told me that in later years her mother told her she heard a rumble at the time but it took a long time for details to arrive in the news paper, being so far from the cities.It was then that she knew what she had heard.
Thank you for retelling Grandma's eyewitness account as well as what Greatgrandma told her daughter. I t is important that our elders speak of these things and refreshing when children listen.
@Islayman i was doing time in S. Korea those depressing years 🌏
@Islayman Need to explain better, I was in Az. summer 91 and then S. Korea by June or July. I was in Texas summer 92. Also, sorry about your struggles too, those periods. Funny how it's so long ago and doesn't hurt anymore, of things you lost then.. I lost highschool sweetheart by summer 92 and my world ended. lol
She's married kids and we chat online every once in awhile. It took many years to get over her and today, I can just look at her like a friend I need nothing further than that. It took a ton of dating and many years to lose that younger pain. I can also say in Texas, it rained alot too that summer, every weekend was a damper on things.
@Islayman Oh man what a story of struggle but in the end you create and gained new better life! I fell in love summer 2004 and it was great but mostly bad roller coaster that finally eneded 2019. Today, I've accepted my losses and being single I stay busy productive mentally and physically to keep from defeat into depression. I appreciate your story man and will remember it as I go. Now about these volcanoes its dam interesting and obvious stuff I never knew. Summers are always too damn hot and now when had that recent underwater volcano tsunami coast of Tonga concerns me. I also seen claims it was underwater nuke test N. Korea being prime suspect if true????
Other than that summers will be 200° and spent indoors and underground 😆
@slay2525It was Mt Pinatubo. We were stationed in Europe at the time, and my dad was part of the evacuation of Clark AFB. I think he slept for 3 days straight when he came back.
As a person who has lived in 536 A.D, I can confirm that this is true.
It’s great to see you keeping up with modern technology. You’ve lived through so much!
🤣🤣🤣
Same
Wow. Thank for inventing toilet Papper
@@lucus1345 yep, this modern technology is rather confusing at some points.
The fact this is being recommended in 2020 speaks for itself
IcemanJuice that part
2020 isn’t that bad, could be worse
@@moelee8938DONT JINX IT
It's been up for 3 years. Did you recently watch a Timeline or other disaster-type video?
It hasn’t been all that bad (knock on wood). Disruptive innovations are allowing people to work from home. I no longer HAVE to go get my groceries at a brick-mortar store. Instacart says that I have saved 80 hours from not having to shop at grocery stores so far this year. I’ve spent those 2 weeks in savings on Youtubing though. LOL
This gives "The dark ages" a totally new perspective in a literal sense.
Yeah, no light bulbs anywhere.
@@gusargoan You animal.
@@gusargoan people planted light bulbs, but they just wouldn't grow ;)
@@gusargoan Mom, Dad; where's the self lighting candle *‽ ‽*
Jacked Avocado I like your Name , research where That Original language is Avocado , Nahuatl language give Avocado their name , it Nahuatl it means Testicles .
Thanks, so glad I came across this fascinating documentary. Many questions of our historic evolution are enlightened by the answers provided by events spawned of the occurrence of this natural disaster.
Who else is watching this in 2020 to try and feel better
Mailing in my ballot today so ya this is downright cheery. Well after my cannibutter coffee.
Tweeders Latour Lucky you , I wish I had a canna butter maker !
Me 👋🏼😄
Yep
Only other delicate people in need of a "safe space".
Oh god... This must've been terrible for the stock market
No stimulus bailouts for corps either
Sky: Rain's ash upon all humanity.
Trump: It will disappear! Like a miracle!
Not if you have invested in cows, apparently.
@@Jagonath The tests are in, the tests are beautiful
@@davethompson3326 PELOSI Heroes Act had "RESTORE SALT TAX WRITE OFF"
$150 Million tax cut for Democrat SUPER DONOR Mike Bloomberg alone
This was during the reign of Justinian, the last Eastern Roman Empire emperor who actually spoke Latin. His story is pretty awesome, especially that of his wife, Empress Theodora.
David, I need to speak to you about this issue. I'm planning a Doco film about Justinian - can we talk?
I knew Theodora; what a piece of work she was...
@@dorianphilotheates3769 😆😆
carlos cardoso - 🙂
agree on Theodora. One of the most fascinating Roman emperors ever.
I am from India, and I was wondering what was going around at this time in the Indian subcontinent (considering all the political upheaval mentioned in the video going on so close to India).
I found something very interesting, exactly around this period, the Golden age of India that of the Gupta dynasty came to an end. One archeologist, Mr Shanker Sharma said in 2019 that the end came due to a great flood around 550 AD that devastated the land ruled by the dynasty. I wonder!!!!! :O
These events happened in the deep times of kali yug, that lasts according to Sri Yukteswar Giri, for 1200 years and ended 1699! Follow the historical development and bang! All of a sudden electric energy, steam engines and therewith the industrial revolution rang in. I believe very much in cosmic cycles steering such events!
@@TheSamuiman im starting to think that i need to write things for my offsprings
@@muricamarine9473 Do it, more and more of personal experience and knowledge gets lost or is very much distorted for click-bait!
There is an unbelievable hap of nonesense and BS on the web, but also in print....!
@@TheSamuiman Sri Yukteswar Giri was a Guru and Astrologist. His 'Yuga theory' and 'Holy Science' are made up nonsense and have nothing to do with real history.
That's very interesting.
Dr. Storey (the archaeologist who discussed the bones found in Mexico) was my osteology instructor at the University of Houston. What a surprise to see her!
John Hines (during the section on Britain) was my lecturer for Anglo-Saxon England at Uni! It's cool seeing your old professors on telly
How cool!!
You think 2020 is bad? Just be glad you weren't around in 536 A.D...
You just jinxed it. Thanks.
Ikr? So many morons.
Well there was a 550AD. Is 2050 a slam dunk?
2020 isn't over yet
Hindsights 2020 takes on a whole new meaning. Great doco 👍
👋 from New Zealand
If your watching this it means your family was a bunch of badasses because they withstood the odds of time, congrates to you and me for coming from an awesome group of humans.
nathan goodfellow wonderful lol 🌹
Or dumb luck.
@Roy Futrell Or all pervasive and for everyone. If you study evolution and genetic drift you see plain old dumb luck is a very powerful force.
Now people dont have kids.
nathan goodfellow That’s such a cool way of looking at it
Another excellent program! I appreciate greatly the consideration and inclusion of South American and Central American civilizations. There are many documentaries which claim a global focus when what they focus on is really European and North American history. Well done 👍🏽
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams...................................
Tennessee Williams? Wrong, it was Kentucky Bourbon
@@jamesalexander3530 prove it then love.
and tennessee williams was born in colombus mississippi, thats why he was called, ? ...
...
Yes it has
bruh, you can't just drop this on us without warning. I wasn't prepared for my third existiental crisis of the day yet
"Oh, my sweet summer child. What do you know of bad years? Bad years are for volcanic eruptions that block out the sun for months." UA-cam algorithm putting this documentary in my recommended videos feed
@Hunter D Things in Brazil are no better...
kudos on the GOT nerdship
you re on the right track we have not had the poles flip, or a collapse of the ice shelf or an asteroid collision or an atmospheric burnoff - yet, but do not give up hope , there is still time for some natural force to beat Trump and it may be out of sync but it will not be artificial if one of those winters come@Hunter D
The poles are on the move. DEW's are also attacking the North American craton.
It's going to go off!
I don't think it's right to call Islam a world religion unless you mean in the context of world domination, subjugation etc
The fires we had in Sept. here in the Northwest had caused so much smoke that you couldn't see the sun during the days. It was still very warm, but it was forecasted for the weather to be in the high 90 degree temp. range over a 5 day period. Instead, due to the thick smoke, it only got up to the high 70's to very low 80's. It was a small local experience of what a catastrophic event, such as a massive volcanic eruption could cause to the world.
Still a Work In Progress I’m here in eastern Washington and what you say is true. So Smokey and low 70s when it was supposed to be in the 90s. I wish I could upload pics in comments here. It was crazy
I live in socal. Its been hot and smoky here. About 90 degrees consistently
Testing 123 Same, I where I live (Ventura county) the smoke has pretty much cleared. Air quality still isn’t the best though.
you could see the sun on the UA-cam
Check out Victor Schauberg on you tube.
The eastern Roman Empire depended on wheat imports from Egypt. The crop failures due to the volcanic eruption made this trade even more essential. Ivory trade probably not a major factor, although as seen with the Black Plague much later, all it takes is 1 ship to spread the disease across continents.
All it takes is a powerful volcanic eruption to cause a event like the Black Plaque.
I want to thank all those who have worked on this video in any way. I especially give a huge thank you to all of the researchers. This video was extremely well done. This is as expert and professional as dealing with all the information can possibly get.
Well-written and produced. Not only informative but entertaining. Thanks for making this available.
I was born in one of regency in Indonesia, its name Pandeglang. But I grew up, study and now work in another city. But I always visit my hometown at least once a year. My village is surrounded by three mountains; Pulosari, Karang, and Aseupan. One of it 'stands' like a wall, separated my area with the strait/sea where the Krakatoa is located. When I went to my hometown I liked to visit stream or small river, and I always amazed by big rock that seems like scattered fell from the sky, that's my thought when I was kid. Now I'm 30. Later I thought, was that rock or stone came from mount eruption, but which mounts? Since my hometown is surrounded by three mountains, I mentioned above. And after I searched I don't find any record about erruption from three mountains I mentioned above. I never had a thought it came from Krakatoa until I watched this. I checked Google earth and took the straight line from my village to Krakatoa caldera right now, it's around 70 km away only. Anything is possible. One of my favourites rock is the rock which as big as dining table, almost 2 meter in diameter and height. I hope someday the scientist comes to my hometown to explore more about Krakatoa impacts.
~u
Thank you for posting this. I believe that there is a lot of study concerning Krakatoa. Indonesia is a wonderful place for the study of volcanoes.
So many things that i thought could not be explained were proved very plausable here, simply amazing.
aing urang rangkas euy.. Buyut urang menes yang malah tahu cerita asli nya Krakatau karena saksi hidup
@@marymorris6897 glad to see your good respond too 🎉
@@alexandercarlson919 yes, some mysteries are waiting to be discover
Everyone's a gangster until Krakatoa erupts again.
Krakatoa's gangster 'till Yellowstone says "Hold my Buffalo Burger"
It actually did this year in April. But it was a little one its on UA-cam
Yeah well...the volcanologists are most worried about the supervolcano in Italy though...everyone's a mafioso until Campi Fiegri erupts again lol :)
i would rather be scared about Merapi than anything else that isnt a supervolcano like campi flegrei or yellowstone.
it's said it has the potential to be a worse version of the Tambora eruption.
Krakatoa literally drowned itself again and wont be much of a threat like in the 1880's. i actually doubt it will ever grow as big again as in that period while humans are alive.
@@scotts653 Yellowstone gangster until a LIP (Large Igneous Province) erupts.
“Politicians should pay more attention to the past”....true, but they don’t even think beyond the next 4 years......😳
Why should they? The president that comes after will just reverse whatever he did.
There are no opinion polls about the past so they are not interested.
So, do you want them to think about the past, or beyond the next four years? These people don't give a damn about the truth of what happened in the past. They are being paid by people with a 2020 agenda. They give these scientists grants to go out and prove what they want to be proven. They back up their future plans with a phoney past.
2Pac- They dont give a F**** about US!!
Is this an ascended monarchism take?
Welcome to another episode of "where quarantine has led me today"
Learning something is NEVER a bad thing. At least something good came out of it.
Scamdemic. Stealing livelihoods daily.
Yes.And we are ALL here because our distant ancestors were survivors ...
Lol
Nawwww you're here because you were curious lol after all there's so much to watch on UA-cam that nobody could get thru it all in a lifetime. 🙂
Catastrophe is a book by David Keys. In depth explanation of how the world of 536 was affected in climatically, politically, and religiously. How nations rose and fell through the starvation and death caused by the plague. Impressively like the world situation is now. An excellent study.
i live in indonesia. my city is only 350km/180 miles from krakatoa. in 2018 krakatoa had a minor eruption and created a tsunami that killed 100 people. that volcano is not dormant and pretty active. we better brace ourself guys.
It's no joke. No wonder Krakatoa was attributed divinity: wrath of the gods personified.
Thanks for the “local” report. Looks likes we may look back on 2020 as a pretty normal year.
@@tristanband4003 Or we did it to ourselves through manmade climate change.
@@retroguy9494 climate doesn't affect volcanos.
@@tristanband4003 Are you sure about that one? I don't know much about volcanos being from the mainland United States and all.
As our favorite Green Bay quarterback would say, "a bad year now would've been the best year ever for most other times in human history"
DEFINITELY!!!!!!!
That's what he said when he lost to Brady and the Bucs.Oh I thought it said for most other teams in human history..lol
Didn't know that one, love it. These stupid masks are probably better than carrying around a bunch of snakes and leaches,..
of course most of the human history is a classified information that only the secret societies know the available details of it and unfortunately they're the ones producing these "documentaries" and the text books to cement the mis-information
Yours still do that? Mine couldn' t be bothered. He just tells me to take two leaches and call him in the morning. That's public healthcare for you.
I can't tell you how much I love the look on the guy's face at the opening of this documentary such seriousness the look of impending doom great face great documentary
Volcanoes, man. They really are nature's reset button.
I think if we can't reverse the climatic changes, mother earth will do for us sooner or later. Only issue would be mass extinctions
I don't know why but this made me giggle lol
Volcanoes, man= A declarative statement.
Volcanoes man= Super hero or villian
The comma is powerful
@Hotepmuhdykkk Knjgjurz the Western powers are responsible for the refuge problem their support for terrorism basically fighting the so called chosen ones war's
Volcanoes are mother nature's answer to global warming.
There was also a terrible volcanic eruption in 1816 that resulted in the year without a summer, as it was known. It caused massive crop failure because there was often frost and snow through the growing season.
Also heavy rains in Europe and the crops were flooded there.
Why wasnt every thing wiped out ?
Stating the obvious.
Thank you David Keys for the vision and dedication to the rest of our science community and those that fund their research to bring this history to us.
The eruption was actually at 540 AD. There were two massive sulfur spikes in the Arctic the one from 535 was massive but the one from 540 A.D. was even more massive. Also climatological evidence showed that the volcanic vent from five 3580 mostly affected northern latitudes while equatorial regions were largely not affected while the 540 sulfur spike was also found in the southern hemisphere at the south pole. The 535 eruption was likely a northern latitude volcano with a VEI of a six or seven, and very likely the volcano was in Alaska and the reason we cannot find it at the moment is that it is entirely submerged just like Kuwae, The more powerful irruption actually happened in 540 AD so only five years later. And because it was not one but two massive super volcanic eruption‘s that is why everything after 535AD was so extreme because before the northern hemisphere especially Europe could recover from the 535 volcanic eruption, Krakatoa erupted with a volume several larger than the 1815 eruption of Tambora and that eruption formed a 30 km wide caldera. Tambora had an eruption a volume of 150 km³ while the 540 A.D. eruption was closer to 300 km³.
Interesting analysis. It makes sense that two catastrophic eruptions could cripple the ancient world. What makes you point to Alaska as the likely source of the first eruption?
Concentrate on your communication skills, I can not fully understand what you have written there and I would like to.
Interesting
......the large quake of Lisbon was a warning . Check out Walter Veith's Total Onslaught series at Amazing Discoveries on UA-cam ! Maranatha !
@@georgehays4908 What?
Timeline: Why 536 AD was the worst year in history.
2020: Sit down, it’s only October...
*Already October.
@@nikitakuznetsov8446 my thoughts LOL
Let's be honest, this year so far hasn't been as bad as 536. We had people complaining about their mental health because they had to stay at home. That's an utter luxury when compared to failing harvests and the real plague. Come on.
don't bring that meme here
Two months still for a chance at nuclear winter?
Wonderful documentary as always.
Yes, we should pay attention to the ability of natural events to change history.
We are all at the mercy of nature.
As we are living with climate disasters thanks to short sightedness often precipitated by pure greed.
Maybe the people pushing solar as the solution to all our power needs and pollution problems should watch this, then maybe more research will be done into other renewable energy sources. Also I don't think my back gardens big enough to grow a years worth of food as it is, let alone if its producing a reduced yield.
@@kaneworsnop1007 Solar power is from the sun which is much easier to harness than other renewable energy sources
@@sampuatisamuel9785 Except when volcanic dust causes the sunlight to be blocked for long periods.
The 1815 eruption of Tambora led to the 1816 Summer that wasn't, which included blizzards in July.
Yes. On a personal note, my Great Great Great Grandfather was killed in 1817 when a freak storm came up and blew a tree onto him. What I found interesting was seeing a show on this eruption and that 1817 also was a terrible year with weird weather including freak storms with high winds in that part of the world that summer that he died. So I think my ancestor died due to that eruption affecting the weather.
It also led to the initial designs for the bicycle, since horses were dying for want of oats, and to the horror genre, when Mary Shelly and her friends were holed up in their villa on Lake Como and held a story-writing contest to pass the miserable rainy days.
Let us not forget the 1811 New Madrid earthquake that widened the Mississippi River and made it flow backwards a few months
I Europe the year without a summer was made worse by the hundreds of thousands of men displaced by the war returning home to little food because too many had been away not farming. of men
Remarkably interesting, the way they managed to tie it all together. I previously had no idea!
Like many things in life, you don’t know what you don’t know.
I can relate, every time I crack-a-toe-a on something it creates an absolutely vast explosion of curse words.
Wildly under-upvoted comment
🤣😂🤣😂🙊🙉🙈
Omg 😂😂😂👏👏👏
Made my day😁
It’s funny because it’s so true!
And people say that 2020 is the worst year ever when they tweet on their iphone's and having a full stomach
That's because these people live on their social media...they don't have a life of their own! They need to wake up! All I mean is that they don't know anything about history even up into the 1940s when most people lived in rural areas - sure metropolises were packed but most of the countries' population didn't live there.
it ain't over yet!
536: “I am the worst year ever!”
2020: “Hold my Corona beer.”
U can gain the whole world but loose ur soul
@@christinapsalmist4267 you meant "lose your soul"
"He's put all of the data into a supercomputer"
Shows desktop PC running Windows 95
They edited out DONKEY KONG throwing massive boulders & MARIO jumping to punch them for more dust in the atmosphere! lolmao
More than likely using a terminal shell to connect to the supercomputer on campus...i'm a tech nerd had to respond to this one lol...
Well, back in 2000 it was a decent machine!
@ I know, had the same impression- but the book was released in 2000 and this 3bm television documentary was also broadcast in the same year. As for when they actually started filming- no idea.
He was just using an app that was accessing the super computer over the network.
wow, very well presented and informative. for history hunters, this should be in your list to watch
What an incredible study. I've learnt more things I didn't know from this one episode than I have from several interesting things I've watched and read this year.
Well did you know the Roman empire fell long before this explosion? Google it and you will understand how many errors there are in this documentary.
Remember 2019?
Everybody said it sucked, it was terrible, "it was the worst"
Don't commit the same mistake during 2020.
I never understood the general hate towards 2019. What even happened that was so bad? It was personally a bad year for me because my father passed away, but I didn't get the mass "2019 sucks!" appeal 🤷🏿
@@ronniemonnie I wasn't even aware that there was a strong hate towards 2019, I know that before 2020 people said that 2016 was the worst year because of how many celebrates died and cause of Harambe
@@ronniemonnie Because there were a bunch of celebrities that died or somethin like that.
i actually loved the year 2019 ahahha one of the best years of my life but idk why there's so much hate against it.
0ll0
“2020 is the worst year ever!”
536 A.D: *laughs in Krakatoa*
They had the crazy dancing people too. Q.
welease the kwaken!
Yeah 2020 has been awful
No Krakatoa seriously laughed in 1883. You should read about it it's fascinating or watch a documentary about it's history. It nearly blew itself out of existence, two thirds of it was blown up and the sound of the explosion was heard around the world, it still remains the loudest sound ever recorded, not to mention the aftermath of the fallout from the emmisions being ejected anywhere from 30-50 miles into the air depending on which account you read or hear, the damage to the climate, to crops, to the weather, weird sunsets and colours in the sky. Absolutely terrible.
Amen! Let’s call it what it is, and do our part to make 2021 better.....
ua-cam.com/video/5eULETsBsDE/v-deo.html
Thanks!
that computer simulation of the volcano erupting was absolutely horrifying.
I agree with you, Jon. But if you want to see a simulation of a volcano erupting that’s scary enough to leave you shaken, let me urge that you watch this. And if you can play UA-cam on a large screen TV please do so, with the volume turned up a bit. I’ve watched this several times over the years, and it always blows me away. Everyone I’ve shown it to so far has found it frightening and moving, and perhaps you’ll agree.
ua-cam.com/video/dY_3ggKg0Bc/v-deo.html
*ahem* that's a super computer
I know right, terrible graphics.
Most of the islands in the area of the eruption were left barren for a few decades... or at least in low population compared to what it was before the eruption. At least ... 2 million people in the 100 mile radius of the eruption... died... either of the blast... or starvation after the eruption.
@@GrantTarredus wow, that was frightening just on my phone! Thanks for the link
"2020 is the worst year ever"
536: "Hold my hippocras"
1177 BC The Year Civilization Collapsed
ua-cam.com/video/No7z8P4BmPo/v-deo.html
We still have a month left....
2020 isn't even worse than the year 1347 lol
Hold my watered down lead wine
I live in Ecuador where we have 19 of the Worlds largest and mostly active volcanoes in the World..We just had a massive Eruption of The Sangay Volcano in Sept 2020 that covered Guayaquil in Ash and darkened the Sun ..
@@markmark2080 wow too soon man but 👏 👏
Twinky. I never knew about the Volcano spewed in Sept of 2020 . I did not view it in any social media.
I have relations who reside in Guayaquil.
Twinky, I saw that in the news, major mess to clean up, especially the farmers and saving the crops, best wishes to all, it's been a tough year.
@@maryroybal678 the Sangay exploded a few weeks ago..Guayaquil was covered in Ash ..Also Cantons Bolivar and Guyas..Major damage to Farmers ..I was on my way back from the Beach thru Guaquil and saw it myself ..
@@dentside78 YES its the very best place to retire..I am blissfully happy here ..I live near CUENCA
The term "two thousand, million" is a really confusing way to say "two billion"
In Great Britain, a billion used to be defined as a million million, not 1000 million as it was defined in the U.S..
@@FlyingTigress then what did they call 10^9?
@@karldavis7392 Milliard
@@FlyingTigress Same in Sweden. Miljard = 10^9, Biljon = 10^12.
Also in Germany Milliarden
As a Hungarian I'm really intriegued by the information that the gold of the Avars is still believed to be buried somewhere around here. Time to dig :D
:-D good luck!
Polish last name
Soros dug it up, already.
Probably under the Tisza
Stelllllllllaaaaaah. Hello. How's Stanley?
By contrast, 2020 was nothing but a wake up call to show humanity just how fragile everything is, and just how completely dependent upon international commerce we all are. So 2020 could have been SO MUCH WORSE!
It's only October.. 😜
Give it time...
Don't jinx it...we aren't at the end yet
Bronze age collapse 2: electric Boogaloo
The economic impact coming will be worse.
Historian: 536 is the worst year
Abnormal socia media people: 2020 is the most worst years
"most worst years"?
@@nonmember8725 It's 2020. Proper spelling and grammar are scarce. That's exactly how a lot of people would express that thought.
@@johnnypenso9574 How unfortunate.
@@johnnypenso9574 That's rather depresssing
@@glovarga4569 nah 2020 isn't even the worst year lol. Yeah it's bad but it ain't the worse
It is only 1:40, I am watching, eagerly anticipating this info - then I spot this man's library through the windows - oh how I adore people's libraries. I wonderful personal libraries like these are sublime happiness to me. I chose the place I call home because of a single wall of built-in bookshelves, and expanded it as soon as I had time.
Wine is divine & candy is dandy, but my silverfish all have names.
Like when you go to someone’s home or office for the first time and you can’t pay attention to what they are saying because you’re too busy reading the titles of books on the shelves...
@7 Haunted Days 😂 lock me in and throw away the key!
ResearchOdigo
Keeping with your rhyming roll, Are your silverfishes names Dish, Swish and Wish?
I don't enjoy reading yet i love learning, I'm stuck in between
@@Ignirium The fact that you are still curious is the main thing! I am “spoiled“ by learning thru listening, to audiobooks, podcasts, etc. especially when my eyes are tired!
as soon as i clicked on this video I already knew exactly what the comments were gonna say
Year 3,013:
UA-cam: 2020 was the worst year in history
@@roxanasharleen1520 no comas in dates..
@Carol Young
The Moon Landing never happened from this flat Earth...
Roman Empire: I'm gonna survive forever and reclaim the West
Krakatoa: I'm gonna end this man's whole career
Holy Roman Empire you mean
@@MrJurgita no, Eastern Roman Empire, aka The Roman Empire. Who even cares about the Holy Roman Empire? Frankish-Germanic wannabes. And Holy Roman Empire didn't collapse due to the events of 536 but it is clear that the Roman Empire entered decline because of the failed reconquest of the Western Roman Empire, the Justinian Plague, the Avars and later the Turks, all of which were heavily influenced by the 536 dark year. The 1453 fall of Constantinople wouldn't have happened if not for the dark year of 536.
@@DeclinedMercy Maybe. But you can site the Crusaders sack of Constantinople in 1204 as the more immediate cause of the cities fall. This severely weakened the city and it took them over a 100 years to recover.
@@paulstone3590 the Turks were subjects of the Avars. They defeated the Avars due to the effects of the dark year and subsequently drove them to migrate to Europe. The Avars then became a major security threat to the Roman Empire, while the Turks became significantly more powerful. The Turks then went into Persia and then Anatolia, where they would come into conflict with the Roman Empire, which was the reason the Roman Empire called upon the Pope to launch a crusade. And let's not forget again, the Justinian plague which wiped out half of the Empire's population and inflicted serious and lasting damage on the Roman economy (leaving them less capable in terms of defense both short term and long term relative to unaffected groups of people). Without the dark year, many of the factors that caused the downfall of the Roman Empire including the arrival of the Turks and the Fourth Crusade would not have happened, and the Roman state would in all likelihood still exist in some form.
@@DeclinedMercyNobody knows what what would have happened if the Volcano did not erupt. All is known that it did. And any assanation of a leader that was committed or avoided could change the course of history. The Turks finally defeating Byzantium took hundreds of years. There was plenty of mismangent of government that took place then and before that weakened Constantinople and allowed them to be defeated. One example, the constant fighting with Persia. Their 300 years of fighting weakened both parties and let Muslims sweep in and conquer both. The Persians first and later the Eastern Romans.
Omg...they actually referred to Justinian as Roman emperor and not “Byzantine” emperor. This video gets a thumbs up 👍🏻
Fr
@Dubious Caque Who doesn't like that Justinian Bieber?!
Yes! So true!! You’d be surprised how many people don’t know that 😅
@Brisdad53 there’s no such thing as an eastern Roman emperor/empire. It was always one empire, just administered by two emperors (and one time for a short while by 4 emperors). You might want to reconsider what you say before trying to correct someone with wrong info. 👍🏻
I know, I heard that too, and thought they were talking about another emperor!
Terrific show. Thank you for the information right from the tree rings through to the end.
In several history books, the years closely following 534 AD almost disappear; there are a few words about Roman Europe and its transition from a Republic to a Church of Iron. Literally a Dark Age in Europe, and a great breakdown even in the well-forested India and Southern Aisia.
The term "Dark Ages" refers to the lack of recorded history for that period. Records were produced by a few educated elite, and when the Roman administration left there were very few to carry on the task. As far as a change in regime is concerned, we can see the same sort of chaos now, when a powerful government retreats, leaving the locals to collapse into warring tribes.
And around this time settlement patterns in England markedly changed, including those that had predated and survived the Romans.
@@MD-tv5fp The skies literally went dark -- Byzantine historian Procopius. “For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year.”
We haven't come anywhere near to societal collapse. Just cuz you can't visit your Grandma this Christmas and can talk to her on Zoom does not societal collapse make. Just cuz you can't go to the bar and be in a crowd doesn't mean the world is coming to an end. We survived 536 and we'll survive this too. Talk to a survivor of WW2. Welcome to a true Apocalyptic Event. Keep up the fight. We got this.
Lisa is a moronic globalist.
Karens worldwide dont want to wear masks cause FreEDomZ
@@diegoflores9237 freedom is far more important than your fears. Without the freedom to choose life means nothing.
@@diegoflores9237 aren't you forgetting those Karen's who attack people for not wearing masks and shields. Karen as a group do not stand on one side or another. No side defines them. They are simply crazy people who self appoint themselves as authoritarians and entitled people.
Thanks.I feel better already. Socially awkward
It's interesting to note that Eruption of El Salvador's lake Ilopango helps explain A.D. 536 cooling as well. Fascinating that two massive eruptions occurred at the same time.
I wonder when underground water pools dry out and would start a chain of reactions that triggers more and more problems. The consequences reach the level that tectonic plates become unstable. A kind of butterfly effect. Big problems start from smaller problems... in time they reach a point where catastrophic events can not be avoided.
It didn't, volcano Ilopango erupted in 431 AD ±2
Ilopango was a century earlier, and its ash is very different from that of Krakatau. Volcanic ash is very specific, used to determine both the volcano it came from and which spectific eruption.
@@pablorai769 This documentary is associating the 426ad event/plague and making it out to being something that happened in 526ad...They stole history channels documentaries way of portraying the explosion of ilopango either way...
I lived in Morocco and the archaeological digs are finding some amazing things especially useful in dating the eruption and following plague.
Be honest everyone. We all went onto this video to read the comments.
No, I came to watch the video oddly enough
I did🤦🏾♂️
I came to read the comments
I needed to know if the video would talk about toilet paper shortages and patriotic temper tantrums about facemasks. Listening about Krakatoa is oddly assuring.
@@4knewt505 Yellowstone is the next chapter
I wonder who the happiest person in the world was during that year. Someone had the best year, ever.
Sounds like the middle east and africa was thriving. Persia was failing for unrelated reasons to the plague though
@@alhabtoormotors4221 Oh look, a UA-cam historian 😆
Your glass is always half full
👿 loves his minions' work on Earth... but for not much longer.
Old Pangloss would've concurred
[ 535 ]: Ha ha! I'm the World's Worst YEAR!
[2020]: *I am NOT FINISHED yet*
That TDS is real...
That's well put! I can't wait to see what the terrorists do on election day.
Wow, it's not even close
@@ShewasIwas-biden didn't even mention Trump get outta here
Its 536 a.d. also theres no way this is getting worse than genghis khans conquests which killed 10 percent of the world also 40 million people
Thanks
came here for a nice relaxing doomsday documentary, got a pretty good plague documentary
Be proud,. Every single person alive today had ancestors who survived this!
Crazy!
Starvation will change anyone. Now here is a thought...imagine if we had a major catastrophe today as a Volcano erupting and there is no sun for a year, no food. How do you think people would react. Frightening isn't it.
It’s going to happen
Billions would die, people would eat each other alive.
And less than 70 years later the Arabs are taking over what remains of the Roman Empire. Damned volcanoe.
Alberto Barreto
No way around it , I think this will be the zombie era
First, anything that stops the oil from flowing will end most modern conveniences, including electricity.
Second, throughout human history, no civilization has ever been more than nine consecutive missed meals away from collapsing.
I would argue that American urban populations would have the hardest time. The whole notion of self reliance is lost on them.
Amazzzzing information,
And information is Scarrrry!
2019: We are the most terrible year!
2020: Amateurs
535: *AMATEURS*
Pretty much any year of the Bronze Age Collapse, Dark Ages, plague years, Mongol Invasions, Assorted religious wars (invariably bloodier than the other kind until c1800),
Certainly the Wave of disease that wiped out many tens of millions in the 16th C might have attracted a fair few votes, (far less at the end, though)
I feel confident that 1916 & 17 and 1941would have got a few votes at the time
But hey 2020, economies have been damaged and people have to wear masks now and then!
Idiots are saying that every new year was worse than the previous.
2021 under a Biden admin. AMATUERS AINT BLACK
1177 BC The Year Civilization Collapsed
ua-cam.com/video/No7z8P4BmPo/v-deo.html
Amatchez !
Sees title
Checks the date this was posted
"ah yes that's why"
2020 sucks, but MILLIONS haven't died from Covid-19, only thousands. So I'm pretty damn sure that as bad as THIS year has been, it is NOT worse than 536. It's certainly better than 1939-1945 was for many living in Europe or the Far East.
@@eddiejc1 check again, hundreds of thousands in the U.S., 2 million in total.
@@eddiejc1 Your numbers are WAY off. But no it's not as bad as the Spanish Flu
@@eddiejc1 Homie, it is in the millions. Sorry to say
June 24th, 2017 not this year bud.
Humans: We have a nuclear arsenal that can destroy the planet.
Earth: Hold my lava bro.
A planet can't kill itself.
So far they have prevented another world war.
Sam W Tell that to Venus.
Dennis Weidner Plenty of proxy wars to go around.
@@Munkylaw Yes we live in a very dangerous world. And unlike the belief of many, appeasement does not work any better today than it did in the 1930s.
Everything "change(s) the course of human history forever". That's what human history is.
So remember, when you're out hiking, watch where you step! You might kick a rock and Krakatoa.
haha
Undrrated
Best joke tf dude 😂
American Defender, funny
Ooooo, best Dad joke of the day!
One thing remains constant: greed enables diseases.
マンバｒｒｉｃａｎ yeh, like the ads on YT
So does stupidity, yet both are accepted
I totally agree......
One thing remains constant: the speed of light.
@@Dirge4july *in a vacuum
I'm falling to sleep at this slow pace. I got years more of history to get through tonight.
This was incredibly interesting and informative.
Well that was uplifting.
Wonderfully done video. Thanks to the researchers and film makers, such an interesting topic.
when I was 5 years old I asked my dad: ''How did people see in the dark ages, did they bump into things a lot?"......DAD:" No son, its called the dark ages because we don't know much about them".
'It turns out it was very dark for years'
you couldn't believe a thing they told you back then . . . .
@ those black people were the lost ten tribes of israel settled in Europe but mainly western Britain wales in particular
Literacy rates across Europe dropped dramatically and there was very little written down in general *compared to periods before and after.* It's the comparison that's important. It's not that we don't know anything about that time period, it's just that we know less _from the written records_ than we know about centuries before and after it (we know plenty from archaeology). And it was basically a problem in Europe only. They were impacted the most literacy-wise by the collapse of the Roman Empire and were basically the backwater of the known world for almost a thousand years. It was only after the Enlightenment Era that Europe managed to recover.
But during the Dark Ages, Europe spent most of that time period at war with its neighbors. So the only real advancements were in warfare. And that's also a large part of the reason that when they came out of their isolation, European nations promptly began waging war on everyone they came across and trying to conquer them. It was basically the European tradition which became an imperial and colonial tradition.
Everyone: "2020 can't get any wor..."
Yellowstone: *burps*
Hush, 2020 doesn't need any suggestions.
*IDIOT!!!! TRUMP couLd Get Re-ELECTED!!!!*
@@Robert_Robertson See, things are looking better already,the old VP can't even remember the name of his current POTUS. If he hid the money then Hunter's in for a long hunt,daddy forgot where it is..🤣🤣🤣🤣
Actually, yellow stone broke it's self. It has constant releases that broke thru the surface. It can't build up and then explode because it constantly has little releases.
Of course, there are hundreds of others that could pop off
😂😂😂😂 shhhhh 🤐
Learn about all of this in high school in the late eighties. Good video, but this isn’t recently discovered, because our textbooks talked about it all. That tells you that historians have known about for at least forty years.
I guess they had a gender reveal party at Krakatoa too huh...
Bruh
Oh please.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
"Those who fail History are required to repeat it."
Lol this quote has zero to do with a damn volcano we have no control over lol
Heavy words...and oh, so true...
2020 has a month to go, folks. Let's reserve judgement 'til january
the feb of 2021 will overturn jan.......holy cow！
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but if putting up a new calendar made anything better, 2019, 2018, and 2017 would all have solved the misery built up from their predecessors, but that didn't work...and I buy beautiful calendars.
Lmao
Lol seriously
It has mutated (:
The Avar People! I've finally discovered my roots! Their lifestyle was identical to my hillbilly ancestors. My grandmother ran away from home at age 14 and rode her mule all the way from Arkansas to Oregon. That was real horsemanship or whatever you might call it. The ancient Avars would have been proud of her. At the beginning of winter, she'd sew her children into long johns that wouldn't be changed until Spring-----no bathing, either, of course.
are you smelly and gross as well?
Steve's grandmaw, high Queen of the Avar's.😁
you are avaricious, like all jocks
Ooh did you get your dishes licked by women to clean them as well?
The replies to this comment are just sad. I thoroughly enjoyed imagining your grandma on the adventure of a lifetime. Not to mention how industrious and strong people like her had to be. Nowadays the kids are sitting on their IPhones making stupid juvenile comments and expecting everything to be handed to them on a platter.
What isn't mentioned here is that the greatest Christian temple of the age, Hagia Sophia was built during this time, in Constantinople, from 532-537. It seems they knew they'd need a fortress to faith.
Trici Venola thanks I love history
that is why its the worst
Temple saves ill starving people...wait.
@Vidya lmao this is the stupidest thing I have read all day
@Michelle While I wouldn't agree with what vidya said your whole comment is just a giant strawman, it was never claimed there pagans were any better, you can't use that as a counter argument. And the argument of punishing people is ridiculous, the catholic church as a singular entity has punished people for a vast variety of reasons from sane and just to completely and utterly insane, there are plenty of christians who would like people punished simply for offending their religion, which is childish. The reason behind 17th century witch hunts wasn't vandalism either, it was the same old story of the sacraficial lamb, throw others into the fire to save your own skin, or so you think.
The catholic church undoubtedly was corrupted, why do you think Europe experienced 200 years of religious strife? It was because that church was rotten at it's core, and come the end of the 1600's half of Europe had refused to be part of that church which often stood in contradiction to the very core tenents of their own religion. To deny that corruption is simply just silly, and while christianity as a whole can't be blamed for many of these things, neither can you point at the pagans and say ''see they do it too'' and expect this to make the wrong things committed in the name of Christianity suddenly justified.
Well done documentary. Though the music was a trifle overbearing at times, the recreations were delightful without distracting from the professionals. Thanks for sharing.
nelfhipi --that score is terrible
FML #2020!
In Europe between 400 and 700, there was a vast decline in the size of cities and the number of villages. Many landed estates all over Europe were abandoned. The Roman road network fell into disuse. The population of Rome declined to less than 10,000 people. A decline in trade resulted in every European district growing its own food. Given that on average, crops failed around every 20 years, life became insecure for all but an aristocratic or clerical elite. Metal of any kind became scarce. Technologies the ancient world took for granted disappeared from the archaeological record. With the death of Boethius in 524, classical civilisation came to an end.
Thus Europe's decline into what used to be called the Dark Ages, and is now called the early Middle Ages. This massive decline was attributed to the weakening of the Eastern Empire, to the collapse of the Western Empire, and to a number of barbarian invasions. This 2 part documentary argues that a multi-year climate catastrophe triggered this decline. My only disagreement is the failure to mention the massive eruption (VEI = 6) of Ilopango, some time between 410 and 535 CE, in what is now El Salvador. It is conceivable that both Ilopango and Krakatoa erupted within a few years of each other.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ilopango
Very interesting, thanks
Awesome and amazing history. A must watch for anyone who cares about the future of all life on Earth.
So, once again, disasters and catastrophes are a combination of several factors all leading up to the main event. Not just one factor but many.
2020: I'm gonna be a terrible year for people
536 AD: arent you cute
edit: thanks for so many likes
aren't you annoying
@@krisamagus1 no u
also 2020: i aint over yet babe
@@anacarolinazeri667 you've stolen my answer ;)
Also 2020: Hold on, I still got a bit more time left. I'm going to do some leveling up and some last minute planning for my final few weeks. Oh, I totally forgot about that upcoming presidential election! I'll be right back. LMAO.
This is why I laugh when people call 2020 such "unprecedented times". Compared to the plague or Spanish flu COVID is like a case of the sniffles.
Couldn't say it better myself. People need a history lesson. Thank you!
We live presently in a global society with far better technology, especially compared to 1500 years ago.
@Coronation Street Storyline Except the Spanish flu killed between 17 to 100 million people (at a time when the World population wasn't even 2 billion yet). COVID has killed about 600,000 in a population of 8 billion.
@The Coastal Run Productions I'd say it's mainly due to the reaction people have had to it. I live with high-risk people, so that's the reason why I'm so cautious, but the average person is ultimately safe. But most people don't, so the extreme reaction of many nations and many people within nations, especially well developed nations, is hysterical and causes harm in itself, and perpetuates an image in people's minds that things are worse than they are.
At least that's my take on this.
What's really scary is that this has been botched so badly in the United States that at least in in this country, COVID-19 has a chance to surpass the number of deaths by the 1918 pandemic.
Exceptionally important Documentary.
As King Solomon once said...
*"If it's happened before,*
*it will happen again."*
It is only a matter of time.
2020: I'm gonna be a terrible year for people
536 AD: arent you cute
Biden won. Its officially the worst four years on record. Only second to the last four.
@@michaelphillips3367 Biden won. The best news ever.
@@michaelphillips3367 ah, that's because you're expecting the coup by Trump and a new civil war, I guess
The florida man and florida boy of years
mans srsly gonna copy
We’re standing on a ball of fire.
It’s 8 big plates that hold whole world and one cracked , near NYC
@ALB Drilla I read Atlantis book
@ALB Drilla inside of those plates is fire
Why stand when you can sit?
fffyou are right
Does anyone ever just think: “why was I born in this particular time in history? Why wasn’t I born in 536 AD or some time BC?”
Makes you get a weird feeling inside, ya know?
Some might argue you *were* alive in 536 AD as well... Many people believe in reincarnation. Granted, it wouldn't have been "you" in a specific, literal sense... But your supposed "soul."
@Smunstu Stinkymonster obviously. But the fact you could’ve easily been born in any time period is what is crazy. But yes, we were all born at this time because our parents lived in it.
Or how about this: why is it that the sperm that contained my DNA (basically, half of the essence of our being, the other half in your mother’s egg) was the first to successfully meet with your mother’s egg? It could’ve easily been any other sperm cell and therefore, you may not have been born in this time period (and yes, I know it was because the sperm cell beat the others to the egg, it’s just weird thoughts I’m sure many others have lol)
Edit: I believe i should have said you may not even be alive, like.. ever. If your father’s sperm with your very essence didn’t win the race
@@phoenixdavida8987 I get what ya saying, it’s just a crazy thought I have. I’m sure a lot of other people think about this from time to tile
@@michaelwilliamson4759 Perhaps something determines when you're supposed to be alive? I know not everyone believes this, but I believe that almost everything happens for a reason. Like, maybe your question can be answered more simply than you think. It is crazy that you could have been born much sooner or later, but why weren't you? Why weren't you someone else? Maybe you were meant to be who you are to play a role in the world.
I always think that we live in the best time ever for creature comforts and fun, but we aren't satisfied!
Several times watching this I said to myself, wow! Considering the fragility of human societies, and the unforeseen changes that can destroy the lives of individuals, cities, and whole civilizations.
Other sources speak about several other apocalyptic events in human history, e.g. the Clovis comet at the end of the last Ice Age, and other events.
And now we have the event we're now experiencing, also with an initial impact and then a longer, more drawn-out series of consequences...
It was a cataclysmic year. 12:47 shows that Alexandria moved west by around 1000 km. ;-)
You are right! They've put Alexandria in Libya.
I was there two years ago and apparently they have put it back.
@@SofaKingShit But for how long?
Glad I'm not the only one who saw that one. lol
Trump moved it. He said the Egyptian location was fake news. He also demanded apologies for the error.